Education
BY BROOKE SJOBERG
District works to secure teacher incentive funding Georgetown ISD submitted an application in April for state funding to pay incentives to teachers, which could see educators receive merit-based incentives by summer 2026. What you need to know In an April board workshop, district admin- istrators shared they were working to complete and submit their application to participate in the Teacher Incentive Allotment funding mechanism. Wes Vanicek, GISD’s chief strategist for assessment and feedback, said the application for the program would be submitted April 15. About the program The Teacher Incentive Allotment was created by the state in 2019 to keep teachers in the classroom by increasing teacher pay as a performance-based mechanism. Per the Texas Education Agency,
Two GISD campuses to see improvements Improvements to traffic safety and athletics facilities at Williams Elementary School and Georgetown High School will be funded using new and old bond funds, district documents show. The setup Bond savings and interest from the 2021 bond will fund the purchase of limestone blocks for the elementary school and 2024 bond funds will be used to resurface the high school’s running track, documents included in the board’s consent agenda from April 15 show. The limestone will be placed in the grass along Rockride Lane to prevent drivers from parking there while picking up students from the campus and cost the district $32,000. Resurfacing of the track will cost $225,000.
Incentivizing teachers GISD administrators are proposing a data collection method that would categorize and provide teachers
incentives based on their performance. Recognized: $3,000-$9,000 incentive Exemplary: $6,000-$18,000 incentive Master: $12,000-$32,000 incentive
SOURCE: GEORGETOWN ISD/COMMUNITY IMPACT
qualifying teachers were awarded a total of $145.2 million in incentives in 2023. Under the program, the district’s top 33% of teachers receive a designation as recognized educators from the state. The top 20% would be designated exemplary, and the top 5% as master educators. What’s next? Vanicek said the district will continue working to create a handbook and website guiding the local implementation of the teacher incentive allotment, and will prepare to validate teacher data over the summer and into the fall.
GISD enrollment projections for 2024-25 hold strong
I know that the Harmony charter school has broken ground, and they will likely be hoping to get that building operational for fall of 2025. We will be exploring that impact and will provide an update on the projections in the next couple of months. BOB TEMPLETON, DEMOGRAPHER WITH ZONDA EDUCATION
Education, said April 15 the district’s enroll- ment growth is still projected to be around 500 students in the coming school year. While he presented projections for future school years, he said the anticipated opening of a new charter school in the area, Harmony Science Academy Georgetown, planned for next fall may impact the district’s enrollment, but it is unclear by how much.
A quarterly demographic update showed Georgetown ISD’s projected enrollment is still expected to increase by 505 students next school year, but district demographers are cautious of future projections as a new charter school is set to open in 2025. What you need to know Bob Templeton, a demographer with Zonda
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